Petru Cazacu was born in Chişiňau (Moldova) in 1974. He is an Orthodox theologian who is currently engaged in two separate research projects: Salibiyya and Its Role in the Arab Muslim Discourse, in Germany, and Social Aspects of Religious Education in a Multi-confessional State, in Russia.

• Contents: The pastoral vocation problem and its solution by Thermos – The human component of the hieratic vocation – Problems of clergy’s ineffectiveness and solutions advanced by Thermos – Self-knowledge – Repentance – Unconscious – Admissible limits of interaction between Orthodox pastoral theology and psychoanalysis.

Petru Cazacu was born in Chişiňau (Moldova) in 1974. He is an Orthodox theologian who is currently engaged in two separate research projects: Salibiyya and Its Role in the Arab Muslim Discourse, in Germany, and Social Aspects of Religious Education in a Multi-confessional State, in Russia.

• Contents: The pastoral vocation problem and its solution by Thermos – The human component of the hieratic vocation – Problems of clergy’s ineffectiveness and solutions advanced by Thermos – Self-knowledge – Repentance – Unconscious – Admissible limits of interaction between Orthodox pastoral theology and psychoanalysis.

Petru Cazacu was born in Chişiňau (Moldova) in 1974. He is an Orthodox theologian who is currently engaged in two separate research projects: Salibiyya and Its Role in the Arab Muslim Discourse, in Germany, and Social Aspects of Religious Education in a Multi-confessional State, in Russia.

• Contents: The pastoral vocation problem and its solution by Thermos – The human component of the hieratic vocation – Problems of clergy’s ineffectiveness and solutions advanced by Thermos – Self-knowledge – Repentance – Unconscious – Admissible limits of interaction between Orthodox pastoral theology and psychoanalysis.